“We read situations badly, and we didn’t have enough quality in our play. Cagliari then scored two big goals – they weren’t simple. We had the potential to do the same in attack, but we weren’t able to match them.”

This slip could cost the Milanese giants dearly as AC Milan and AS Roma now have the opportunity to push Spalletti’s men over the edge and take control of the two remaining Serie A top-four places.

Meanwhile, Icardi’s future at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza hangs in the air, with several newspapers in Italy already wrote about his possible summer departure.

However, given the fact, Inter can’t afford a luxury of leaving their best striker on the sidelines amid their Champions League promotion battle, things may change during the remainder of the season.